School kits needed

At a school in Managua, Nicaragua, Murisela del Carmen clutches her new MCC school kit as a friend looks on. MCC news photo: Jenna Stolzfus

Mennonite Central Committee needs thousands of school kits this fall to meet requests for shipments to countries like Jordan, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

Of all the material MCC sends across the globe, school kits are the most pressing need. The kits contain notebooks, pencils, coloured pencils, a ruler, and an eraser.

Some 26,000 kits will be sent to Jordan, and kits are still needed to fill that shipment. MCC is also sending kits to Haiti and Kazakstan.

Honduras has requested some 14,000 school kits this fall. This year, MCC also shipped roughly 26,000 school kits to Iraq and 8,600 kits to Afghanistan.

“This is one of our most-requested and most-appreciated items,” says Dave Martin, material resources manager for MCC. “We’re so thankful when people come together to help us meet the needs.”

—Marla Pierson Lester, MCC